I know this is might sound crazy, but what if the real dispute between Vox Media, Inc. and Jacobin is not about different "theories of politics," but different political interests and different political goals? https://twitter.com/voxdotcom/status/1248629329745121280

the attempt to describe ongoing historical struggles as finite experiments in academic political science is one of the more aggravating genres of punditry

John P. Hale's defeat in 1852 was more than an electoral loss. It was a hammer blow to an entire theory of antislavery politics